Eighteen Minutes Speech (Live)

I sure do appreciate y'all comin' out tonight.

I feel like I know so many of ya, but this is for that friend of yours that you dragged out.

If you've never heard me play before, my name's Todd Snider. I've been drivin' around this country a lil' more than fifteen years. I make these songs up and I sing 'em for anybody that'll listen to 'em. Some of 'em are sad, some are funny, some are short, some'll seem like they go on forever, sometimes I may ramble on for as many as eighteen minutes in between a particular song.

I wanna let you know that I also might share some of my opinions with you over the course of the evening. I'm not gonna share them with you 'cause I think they're smart or because I think you need to know 'em, I'm gonna share 'em with you because the rhyme. I didn't come down here to change any of y'all's minds about anything, I come down here to ease my own mind about everything. It works every time.

With that said, I wanna that y'all for giving me a chance to do this for you again. If everything goes particularly well this evening, we can all expect a ninety-minute distraction from our impending doom. This one goes like this...